The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.
JOKES Il Co, pool sellers OF Washington
claim to have been robbed Of 5000 by &. J
Fredenhcimer, q clerk, who made GU,
tickets for customers and pocketed the
money.
THE work Of the Board Of Pension APP
rcals is practically up to date, for the first
time in the history of the board. The extrs
force has been relieved from further duty.
HOPKINS, the reporter who sent the bogus
internal machine to Chief Justice Waite,
has been released.
LAND COMMISSIONERS SPARES sent bis
resignation to the President on the 18th in
. lengthy communication in which he dis
claimed any intention Of offending Secre.
tary Lamar and acted solely in the interests
Of the public.
c. r. WELDON, clerk Of the Cheyenne
river agency, telegraphs the Commissioner
OF Indian Affairs that an incendiary fire
there had destroyed one dwelling, two
barns, the corral, eight horses, a quantity
Of implements and stores.
SAMUEL NJ. BURDETT, q prominent Ken
lucky newspaper man, has been appointed
internal revenue agent with headquarters
ut Peoria, Ill.
AN official list of the members Of the next
House Of Representatives shows that the
next House will consist of 16S Democrats,
153 Republicans and four independents.
The Independents are: Anderson, OF Kan
sas; Nichols, of North Carolina; Hopkins,
OF Virginia, and Smith, Of Wisconsin.
THE resignation of Land Commissioner
Sparks was accepted by the President on
the 10th. Stockslager, Sparks assistant,
tvlll be Acting Commissioner until fresh
appointment is made.
SECRETARY FARCHILp has authorized the
treasury accounting officers to audit the
accounts OF the Castle Garden Commission
ers, treating as an Offset the amounts re-
ceived by the Commissioners from the sale
OF privileges. The amounts to be Offset
exceed the amount of the four months &C.
counts which have been held up.
COMMODORE J. q. WALKER, Chief OF the
Bureau of Navigation, in his annual report
to the Secretary Of the Navy, strongly
urges the formation Of naval reserve.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has decided
that female clerks may marry and still re-
tain their positions in the department. This
il reversal Of the custom which has pre-
vailed in most Of the departments for some
years.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has been
advised that Louis F. Haas was convicted
in the United States Court at Auburn, n.
Y. OF forgery committed by him in con
nection with the pension claim of Emma J.
"a in OF Ho 20
years in the penitentiary. Haas was no
tary public.
PRoF. s. P. LANGLEY has been elected
secretary of the Smithsonian Institute.
Washington, to succeed Prof. Baird.
THE EAST.
FoRTH shares Of the Keely motor stock
aud $751; OF bad debts were sold in New
York recently for a lump sum of S.
TYPHOID fever is prevalent in ALBANY,
n. Y, owing. it is said. to bad water
DIR. h. I. HELMBOLD, the once famous
patent medicine king has been sent to a
New York hospital for intoxication. He
was found dead drunk on the street.
A SMALL body of German Socialists met
in Adams, Mass, the other evening and
passed resolutions of sympathy for the
dead Anarchists and in favor OF continuing
the agitation.
The corner stone of q monument to
Goethe, the great German poet was laid in
Paramount park. Philadelphia, on the 14th
The New York Chamber of Commerce
had its annual banquet at Delmonico's on
tho 18th. The principal speeches were
made by Secretary Lamar. Chauncey De-
pew and Joseph Chamberlain.
CHARLES CAvANAN, a porter, died Of n.y.
drophobia in New York on the 18th.
SENATOR JOSEPH K HAwLEY was married
In Philadelphia on the 18th 10 Edith Hor-
ner, the English hospital nurse.
The Erie PA Rubber Company's works
were destroyed oy fire the other morning.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, S2l, 600
The National Fishery Association met in
New York City recently and adopted reso-
buttons demanding protection against the
importation Of foreign fish and similar mat
tiers.
A FREIGHT engine on the New York Gen.
trail railway exploded near PaIatine Bridge,
N. Y, the other day. The fireman was
hurled over the cars into the Mohawk river
and killed.
REV. CHARLES A. BERRY, OF Woiverhamp-
Ton, Eng, has been called to fill the vacant
pulpit in Beecher's church.
VICE PRESIDENT JAMES ". Saul, d. D.,
OF the Universal Peace Union, died at Phila-
delphia recently aged eighty-nine.
The New York Board of Education has
elected Miss Alice Pine as school trustee
in The Fifteenth Ward. She is the first
woman elected as school trustee in that
city.
Rev. DR.. FRANCIS L. PATTON, professor
OF geology at Princeton College, it is
stated, will succeed DIR. McCosh as presi-
dent OF that institution.
The Zlegel brewery at Buffalo, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire recently. Loss, $l5O,OOO;
$4,000.
R. H. c. Hill, a stockbroker Of Philadel- |
phia- has failed.
isaac SYCLE, wholesale lace and velvet |
dealer. New York, has made an assignment |
Liabilities. sl150o0; assets, slO0,OOO
Tue New York Cable Company is bank |
rupt, owing to losses in cable railroad build |
ing.
TIE Arrow Steamship Company. Of New |
York, has decided to sue the Herald for |
libel and also resolved to invite representa-
lives Of all New York newspapers to in
spect the company's books and affairs. The
Herald had previously asserted tina. the
company was joint-stock swindle.
THREE men were killed in Syracuse, n.
T., recently by the fall of the walls of q
which had been Quilted by fire.
The creditors of Woodman, True & Co.,
of Portland, Me-, have declined to accept
5 cents on the dollar and have resolved to
throw the firm into bankruptcy.
The storyis circulated among New York
sub men that Allen Thorndyke Rice, of
he North Americda Rerier, won S.2a 600
rom Pierre Lorlllard at baccarat in the
Union Club recently.
}. c. k:MBALL, Unitarian preacher. has
made himself unpopular in Hartford, Conn,
~ rcmarkmg that the universal cry of